Too much bureaucracy or not enough interest? (Re: [ACTION REQUIRED] Retiring packages for F-17)

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Jan 17 01:20:15 UTC 2012


Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> We talked about, but never finished implementing a timeout on acl
> requests.
> 
> The way this would work is that maintainer would have some time.. 3
> weeks or something to reject a acl request. If they did not do so,
> pkgdb would automatically approve it at the end of the time.
> This would help in cases where the maintainer is overloaded or not
> paying attention.

The question is of course why we need to allow the maintainer to reject 
comaintainership in the first place.

        Kevin Kofler



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